Transcription of Alcoholic Liver Disease: Introduction - Hopkins Medicine
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Alcoholic Liver Disease: Introduction - Hopkins Medicine
Figure 1..Location of Liver in Liver Disease: Introduction Alcohol is used by approximately 75% of the population of the United States, with a 7% incidence of alcoholism. In addition, alcoholaccounts for approximately 100,000 deaths in the each year, with nearly 20% of those deaths attributable to dependence and/or abuse rates are higher for men than women and for non-blacks than blacks (though blacks have ahigher rate of cirrhosis). Alcohol abuse presents serious public health and social problems, all of which are preventable. What is Alcoholic Liver Disease?As the name implies, Alcoholic Liver disease is Liver injury attributed to alcohol abuse. The majority of Americans manage to drink alcohol without seriousconsequences. Research suggests, however, that Liver disease may begin to develop after a "threshold" dose of alcohol has been consumed generally assumed tobe four drinks a day (four 12 ounces beers, four glasses of wine, or four ounces of hard liquor) for men, and one half that quantity for women.
2) and may be macrovesicular (large droplets) or microvesicular (small droplets). Other conditions, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, drug toxicity and fatty liver of pregnancy may cause steatosis that is indistinguishable from alcoholic fatty liver. Fatty liver is a completely reversible lesion, assuming the patient abstains from alcohol.
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